2020
DOI: 10.3765/sp.13.16
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Intervention in deontic reasoning

Abstract: The 'if p, ought p' problem, famously known as Zvolenszky's puzzle (Zvolenszky 2002), questions whether possible world semantics can assign proper truth conditions to sentences of the form 'if p, ought p'. This paper suggests that it is not a problem of possible worlds semantics of modality, but rather, the 'if p, ought p' problem reveals the counterfactual nature of deontic modals which otherwise would have gone unnoticed. I propose that a counterfactual-based formulation of deontic necessity that implements … Show more

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